Helen Thomas' ancestry was no excuse for her anti-semitism

A letter published in the Baltimore Sun makes some good points about the late reporter who disgraced herself 3 years ago, including:

As for Ms. Thomas' December 2010 speech in which she asserted that "Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists," one should recall the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s admonishment that: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism."

Exactly. I think it can easily be said that Thomas was not a supporter of MLK.